Art
When a person dies, his loved ones typically deliver the body to a morgue before it reaches the final destination; Icelandic artist Snorri Ásmundsson is requesting that someone take a detour on that route to participate in his art.
Art
DETROIT — The Detroit Institute of Arts’s major exhibition Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit closes on Sunday. This show was in the works for a decade, long before the city’s bankruptcy and the grand bargain, which shifted the ownership of the art from the city to the museum.
Art
LIMA, Peru — In early July, Lima's first independent book fair took place in the municipal square of Barranco, a neighborhood brimming with young artists on pastel-colored bikes and covered in street art that mixes aerosol graffiti with Peruvian patterns and iconography.
Opinion
Bill Cosby was once the United States' favorite funny man.
News
Snapping selfies can have pretty serious effects, like damaging art in the quest for likes. In Russia, though, death has become a troublingly common consequence of taking selfies.
Announcement
An initiative between the Birmingham Museum of Art, REV Birmingham, and the City of Birmingham seeks proposals from artists living and working in the Southeast to develop original work to be incorporated into creative wayfinding signs for downtown Birmingham.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6OD
Art
If you visit the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City this summer, someone at the front desk will let you know that the institution is currently undergoing renovation and they regret that all the art in the garden is temporarily off view.
Art
Faith Holland’s show TECHNOPHILIA at Transfer Gallery left me wanting more, kind of like I imagine a good dick pic would.
News
When North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un toured the sparkling new Pyongyang Airport last week, he was happy. But throughout the event, the building's chief architect Ma Won Chun was conspicuously missing.
News
You may have thought Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights" could not get any more trippy, but researchers have developed new software that proves that yes, the Netherlandish painter's baffling triptych just needs a little bit of code to become a complete mind-bender.
Books
Iceland, more than most places on the planet, frequently reveals the cataclysmic activity below its crust through volcanoes, fissures, and geothermal pools.
Art
For 13 years, volunteers at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery scoured its archives for internments related to the US Civil War, whether soldier or civilian.